WordPress and Genesis: Building Child Themes from Scratch

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11/23/2015

If you already have the Genesis Framework, you can create a new Genesis child theme from scratch using nothing more than a code editor. This course shows you how. Carrie Dils covers the basics of child themes—lessons you can apply to your own starter theme—as well as tips to make existing theme customizations that much easier. She shows how to create the PHP and CSS files necessary to structure, activate, and style your theme, and how to add demo content and make the theme responsive on different screen sizes with media queries. She also includes tips on prepping your theme for a real-world deploy. At the end of the course, you'll have a deeper understanding of the Genesis Framework and child themes, and the skills to develop richer WordPress sites.

Topics include:

Why build a theme from scratch?

Creating a theme folder

Creating the CSS and PHP files

Adding a theme setup function

Adding features and functionality to your child theme

Styling the theme

Adding content to widgets

Making the theme responsive with media queries

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 27m

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- Hi, I'm Carrie Dils, and I'd liketo welcome you to WordPress in Genesis:Building Child Themes From Scratch.In this course, we'll start with a blankpage and turn it into a fully-functioningchild theme for the Genesis Framework.By the end of this course, you'll have a solidunderstanding of the basic componentsthat go into theme creation.First, we'll lay out the basicfiles and structure for a theme.Then, we'll look at how to remove thedefault Genesis components that we don't need,and add in the features that we want.We'll also take a look at how you can useCSS to add visual structure to your code.

Finally, I'll show you the steps toprep your site for use in the real world.Your journey to the art of Genesischild theming starts right here, and I'mexcited to be your guide, so giddy up and let's get started.